Website coming up in omitted results for search term?
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Hi,
My website is coming up in omitted results for search term.
Now I have heard before if this is the case then its mainly due to a duplicate content penalty.
But the content I used is unique and produced by a copywriter so its good.
Its a new site and was in the results for about 2 weeks, I changed the non www to www in webmaster tools 1 day ago and now its sitting in omitted results.
In webmaster tools I had to add the domain twice one non www and one www.
Both accounts I hooked up a sitemap.
Is it just because the site is new and its just working out where to rank me?
Just so you know the non www was indexed for the 2 weeks changed it in webmaster tools so I wanted the www one indexed and now gone into omitted results.
Cheers
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Thanks
The site doesn't rank anywhere at the moment but I have just researched into the top result and these are the figures given, does not look like shed loads of work to get up there!
| Page Authority | Domain Authority | Linking Root Domains | Total Links | Facebook Shares | Facebook Likes | Tweets | Google +1 |
| 31/100 | 22/100 | 9 | 146 | 51 | 8 | 8 | 2 | -
Hi again,
Glad you are getting things sorted out now. BIG thumbs up to Shelly for the help with your IIS box - ours is a LAMP company, so thank goodness for Shelly!
Panda is intended to make it harder for low quality sites to rank, and duplicating content will earn that tag, BUT there are plenty of "dodgy" characters out there who are willing to use black hat tactics to get good rankings for stolen content in the short term (for as long as they can make money from it).
Unfortunately, as Shelly mentioned, if they have a higher authority domain at their disposal, they could end up outranking you using your own content!
Your next focus ... backlinks is one good way to stop that from happening. The stronger your Domain Authority, the harder it will be for them to outrank you.
Sha
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Ok I have a 301 redirect happening from a .htaccess file.
Its redirecting from non www to www.
I have set the www in webmaster tools and deleted other.
Regarding the content, the site was indexed first with the new content, so ill check every now and then to see if anyone steals content but what can you really do about that?
I thought the panda update was to stop this sort of action?
Backlinks is the next step
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Activitysuper,
I see you're using the rel=canonical on the non www version, but really you need to use a 301 re-direct on the domain with the non www to direct it to the www version (if that's which one you want to use), you can then set the www one as your preference in webmaster tools and remove the non www version from your account. You can do this quite easily in IIS on your server, by setting up a separate site for the non www version and simply using the re-direct feature to 301 it to your www site.
The site has the potential (to a googlebot) to look slightly spammy in the fact that it's a single page with no external links coming into it. I would try and get some quality links going to your domain to give it some link juice and trust.
It's also an easy site to copy from a content perspective. Someone can just come along, rip your content and setup their own page on a more established domain, so make sure this isn't happening. Google could give credit to the other site in this instance.
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In order to select a preferred prefix for a domain in webmaster tools you have to add two active webmaster tools domains, one being www and the other being non www.
So,
Both of these have been set to use the prefix www and both have the same xml sitemap selected.
I'm running on a window server which does not support .htaccess files and I dont no how to use isapi.
Thanks
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Hi there,
Are you saying that you have two active Google Webmaster Tools accounts for the same site and no 301 Redirect in place?
Sha
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Activitysuper - Are you able to give us the URL of the page in question and the term?
Generally new sites bounce all over the place in the rankings for a couple of months at least before settling down to a position, but omitted results could be for numerous reasons.
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